I broke my heater and our heat is broken
Elsa and I have been trying to figure out how to turn the heat on in our flat, but we haven’t been successful. Unfortunately, the maintenance man is not here this week, so we can’t get it fixed. Fortunately for me, I have a heater that Ashley bought last year and left with me. Unfortunately, it broke yesterday. I guess I had it on too long, and it just shut off and now it won’t turn back on. It makes me very sad. I guess I’ll just have to stay under the covers a lot. Or go the library or something.
Other than that, it’s almost the end of the week. I was actually ahead of things, finished my cold war tutorial readings pretty early yesterday, so I could have started the essay then and not been rushed today. I wrote an introductory paragraph. And then I fell asleep early. I don’t think it’s just procrastination that’s making me not do it though. I tried yesterday, and I just have no idea what my argument is going to be. The question is why did the Cold War end, and most of the readings I’ve done focus on how realists could not explain it, so their theory is wrong more than why it actually did end. So we’ll see how this essay turns out. Probably not as good as last week’s essay, which I was nervous about, but he said was quite good. I had a balance between historical facts and analysis, which I’ve been struggling with.
As for my other tutorial, it wasn’t as terrible as it normally is either. I didn’t feel quite as stupid afterward. I still have no idea what I’m doing, and whether I’ll be able to do it, but this time rather than talk about the whole thesis, which I think Mark thinks is a complete disaster (hence the me feeling like an idiot after every meeting), instead I presented a model. So I was actually showing him something economics-related like in a real tutorial. Now I just have to figure out how to modify it. Which it would be really cool if I could do what he wants me to do, but I just don’t know if I can. Oh well, that will be for this weekend, when I go to the library to keep warm. Right now, I need to hit the essay again. Maybe a night’s rest will get me back on track.